Cotton-seed food.



JOHN voN DER KAMMRR, F PRAIRIE vmwjILLINoIs. A

COTTON -SEED FOOD.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec; 17, 1907.I

' appliquait sind June 20.1906. serial Nq. 322.536.

To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that I, JOHN voN DERKAM- MER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Prairie View, in the county of Lake and State'of Illinois, have invented. a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Seed Food, of

` which the following is "a specification.

the seed of cotton render 1t a palata le and highly nutritious vfood for man and animals.

The object of my invention is to rovide lants in a form t at will Cotton-seed, though known to contain desirable food-elements, does not, in its normal condition of seed, afford, like grain and corn, a

food. It is common to extract,in the form of oil, the fat contained in cottonseed,and this oil is utilized as a supplementto other food;

and the residue is converted into meal, which is quite commonly used as a supplement to 4stock-feed.v -As will readily be understood,

by the treatments to which the seed/is subjected for obtaining these products, the combined available food-elements contained therein are more or less separated or removed and 4lost, for the reason that the protein is thereby seprarated from the oil and the fat is 'separated om the protein,while itis the oil and protein which constitute the foodele mentsifor man and stock.

I have discovered that cotton-seed transformed to the condition 'of ermination is rendered a alatable and hig y nutritious and-healthfu because easily digestible, food since by germinatin the seed I avoid separation of its containe food-elements from the proper natural combined" form required to` adapt it for a lf ood.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating a cotton seed whichv has been `artiiciall sprouted, 1 designatesthe developed radica and 2, 2 the plumuli, and 3 the hull which is shown as removed or separated from the seed. i I

To produce my new'article of food, I germinate. cotton-seed in an desired manner, but referably in a suitab e apparatus,.such as tliiat forming the subject of my Letters Patent No. 790,869, dated, May 23, 15905, wherein it may be properly subjected to the action of moisture and suitabletemperature,

- ina manner well understood and practiced in the art of germiating grains.

Under natural conditions the chemicall changes which take place in the cottonlseed are not uniform in a given quantity of the same lduring an equal period, this condition "them, and canninJP it arising from 'une ual climatic conditions. Thus under natura conditions certain of the cotton seeds" germinate more` rapidly than others and the production'of the plumules and radicals 'therefrom vary widely in the mass. The cotton seed sprouted under ordinary natural conditions is unfit for food, it being acrid and sour to the taste and otherwise unpalatable. I have found that the enzyme l which is most active inthe metabolism of the mass of cotton seed during germination is bestdeveloped at a temperature from 55 to 60 F. and produces an approximately uniform condition of sprouting of each unit or grain of seed making up the mass, and also produces the sweet nut-like flavor' of the changed form of the oil in the seed, thus lmaking it a palatable food. Iny my process the temperature and moisture are accuratel and uniformly regulated, a 4condition not ound in natural sprouting Wherefraterial varia'- tions occur.

mules of which has been checked, and that of the radicals ermitted to a degree short of natural root ormation. I thus producemy new article of food in the 'ferm vof sprouted I thus prdtluce artificially l sprouted cotton seed' the growth of the'plu- ,f

cotton-seed by arresting the` development of the seeds when they attain ythe condition in which their hulls are. abou't'half-wayl pushed off the seeds, Whenit is an easy matter to By reducin the remove the hulls entirely.

temperature andl cutting off the supp y of moisture'sufiicie'ntly to arrest germination .the sproutings checked at the proper condition of the seed. At this preferred stage of development, and with the 'hulls removed, the ns routed seed forms, in raw condition,

adesirable food for man, having a refreshing .nut-like taste and aordin beneficial nutriment in cases of illness w ere starchy and saccharine foods are undesirable.l More'- over, the article may, like green peas and string-beans, be rprovided in desirable. com-.

mercial form,'by .subjecting it tothe same preservative treatment as such vegetables are subjected to preparatory to canning or the market.v An other form in whidh to provide my new article of food for use, is that of a powder, by drying and pulverizing it, to adapt it to be readily vmixed with 'cereals and other food-` forms.

For stock-food, it is not necessary to remove the hulls from the s routed seed,

which may be fed to the anima s without any further preparation-abut preferably as art of the lain-ration or 1n connection wit their Y grazing-feed. This food has alremarkable salutary effect upon the digestive organs of live-stock and prevents scouring and-fever in fatteningjstock 'for the market. 'Moreoven when my new article of food is` fed to milchcows for dairy purposes, it materiallr augments the solids and butter-fats of the milk; and it does not impart to the meat or to the milk anyobjectionable flavor.l

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- v 1. As a new article of food, a mass of cot-l t0n-seed the grainsv of which are artificially- "Sprouted to a uniform condition and the sprouting arrested short of the growth of plumules thereon and a single radical developed on each grain.

2. As a new article of food, a vmass of cotton-seed the grains of which are artiiciallyl dehulled and sprouted to a uniform condition and the sprouting arrested short of the lurnules thereon and a Single V 4. As a new article of foo'd,`ainass of dried artificially uniformly sprouted cotton-seed.

JOHN VON DER KAMMER.

In presence of- A. U. THORIEN,

J. H. LANDES. 

